Letters from England, Հատոր 3Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1808 |
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... human body ; and the docility of animals , which has thus been practised upon for the sake of imme- diate gain , may one day be applied to bet- ter and more important purposes . Ani- mals have no natural fear of man : -the birds on a ...
... human body ; and the docility of animals , which has thus been practised upon for the sake of imme- diate gain , may one day be applied to bet- ter and more important purposes . Ani- mals have no natural fear of man : -the birds on a ...
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... human character and human eccentricity , that a very curious selection might be made from it . The Monthly is more mis- cellaneous in its contents , and its corre- spondents aim at higher marks . Some discuss morals and metaphysics ...
... human character and human eccentricity , that a very curious selection might be made from it . The Monthly is more mis- cellaneous in its contents , and its corre- spondents aim at higher marks . Some discuss morals and metaphysics ...
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... glorious a saint in his human qua- lities , ) - but , having no better guide to follow than his own nature , no wonder religious things when he was but a youth , and that he was misled . His mind ran upon QUAKERS . 47.
... glorious a saint in his human qua- lities , ) - but , having no better guide to follow than his own nature , no wonder religious things when he was but a youth , and that he was misled . His mind ran upon QUAKERS . 47.
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... principle of not fighting , and not hazard- ing human life , refused to assist in regain- ing their liberty , except by such means as they could conscientiously approve . They contrived to secure their 34 LETTER LVII .
... principle of not fighting , and not hazard- ing human life , refused to assist in regain- ing their liberty , except by such means as they could conscientiously approve . They contrived to secure their 34 LETTER LVII .
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... human , advanced to meet the conflagration , holding out both his arms to stay its progress , and would infallibly in this delirium have rushed into the flames , if he had not been carried away by force . The sufferings of the Quakers ...
... human , advanced to meet the conflagration , holding out both his arms to stay its progress , and would infallibly in this delirium have rushed into the flames , if he had not been carried away by force . The sufferings of the Quakers ...
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Էջ 102 - And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness... So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them...
Էջ 238 - It has been said that he who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before is a benefactor to his species.
Էջ 219 - And a great portent appeared in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars; 2 she was with child and she cried out in her pangs of birth, in anguish for delivery.
Էջ 1 - Of the woman came the beginning of sin, and through her we all die.
Էջ 101 - As may express them best ; though what if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein Each to other like, more than on earth is thought...
Էջ 144 - Some years ago, being in the Campidoglio at Rome, he made up to the bust of Jupiter, and, bowing very low, exclaimed, in the Italian language,—" I hope, sir, if ever you get your head above water again, you will remember that I paid my respects to you in your adversity.
Էջ 322 - A GENERAL COLLECTION of VOYAGES and TRAVELS; forming a complete History of the Origin and Progress of Discovery, by Sea and Land, from the earliest Ages to the present Time...
Էջ 85 - A manufacturing poor is more easily instigated to revolt. They have no local attachments ; the persons to whom they look up for support they regard more with envy than respect, as men who grow rich by their labour...
Էջ x - Mr Rogers, being sentenced to be burned, and remanded back to prison, was on Monday morning, the fourth day of February, 1555, awakened out of a very sound sleep, with great difficulty, by the keeper's wife, who suddenly warned him to make haste and prepare himself for the fire. If it be so, said he, I need not tie
Էջ 302 - Oh,' said the gingerbread-baker, ' he wo'nt be angry at seeing me, I warrant, so show me the way up ;' and pushing the servant forward, he followed him up stairs into the room. When, however, he saw the great man whom he was come to honour lying on a couch, with his countenance pale, painful, and emaciated, yet full of benevolence, the sight overpowered him : he...